““This time they are even more cynical, they have prepared to aim at our nuclear power plants. We have this information and evidence,” Volodymyr Zelenskyi said”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“We are now approaching the third winter in this war and Russia is again trying to destroy our power system. This time they are even more cynical, they have prepared to aim at our nuclear power plants. We have this information and evidence,” he said.
If Russia is ready to go that far, it means that nothing is valuable for Moscow, Zelenskyy added.
Currently, the representative of the Russian Federation did not comment on these accusations of Zelensky during the meeting of the UN Security Council.
Earlier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andrii Sybiga, referring to Ukrainian intelligence, said that the Russian Federation was preparing strikes on critical nuclear energy facilities of Ukraine on the eve of winter. In particular, according to him, we are talking about open distribution devices of nuclear plants and transmission substations, which are critical for the safe operation of nuclear energy.
From October 2022, the forces of the Russian Federation regularly attack the objects of the Crimean infrastructure. Because of these attacks, blackout schedules are being implemented, and Ukraine is importing electricity to compensate for the power shortage.
According to the Ministry of Energy, in total, the Russian Federation struck more than a thousand objects of the Ukrainian energy infrastructure, this year alone 9 GW of generating capacity was lost due to strikes.